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General Resources for United States History

US History Links:
American Heritage Magazine
Common-Place
Digital History
ExplorePAHistory
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Historical Thinking Matters
History Matters
History News Network
History Now
National atlas
National History Center
National History Education Clearninghouse
National Museum of African American History and Culture
PA Veterans Museum
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
Primary Source Learning
Smithsonian History Explorer
Teaching with Historic Places
Teaching with Historic Places in Pennsylvania

Primary Sources Sites:
100 Milestone Documents
American Rhetoric
Archiving Early America
Artifacts and sounds from American popular culture
Avalon Project
BBC Interviews
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Duke University Digitized Collections
eHistory from The Ohio State University
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
Footnote
Google News Archive Search
Harvard University Library Open Collections Program
Images of American political history
Internet Archive
Library of Congress: American Memory
Library of Congress: Experience
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Making of America- Cornell University Library
National Archives Digital Vaults
National Gallery of Art
Pennsylvania Center for the Book
Picturing America
Smithsonian Virtual Heritage Tours
The Dirksen's Center's Editorial Cartoon Collection
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004
The National Archives

Historical Scenes Investigations

Oral History Links:
Family Oral History
International Oral History Association
LOC Veterans History Project
NPR StoryCorps
West Point Center for Oral History


AP US History Links:
American History AP Main Page
PowerPoint Palooza
Deer Valley AP US History
Ms. Jocelyn Miner's Home Page

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History Day:
National History Day
Pennsylvania History Day

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xtimeline
Shmoop for teachers

Resources by Time Period
Pre-Columbian America:
American Indian Heritage Teaching Resources
National Museum of the American Indian- Education Resources

Colonial America:
Africans In America
Building Community: Medieval Technology and American History
Colonial Williamsburg
Investigating the First Thanksgiving
Jamestown
Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive
Salem Witchcraft Hysteria- Interactive

The American Revolution:
Secrets of A Revolution- Articles in //US News and World Report//

Constitutional Convention Game
The American Revolution
The American Revolution Center
The Federalist Papers

A New Nation:
American Slave Narratives
National Geographic: Lewis and Clark Interactive Journey
Slavery in Pennsylvania

The Civil War and Reconstruction:
Documenting the American South
Harper's Weekly: Explore History
Lincoln Memorial Diary
Teaching the Civil War with Technology
The American Civil War Homepage
The Centennial Exhibition- Philadelphia 1876
The History of Jim Crow
The Valley of the Shadow

America as a World Power:

Growth and Transformation:
Child Labor in America 1908-1912
Ellis Island
Virtual Tour of a Tenement

1920s, Great Depression and New Deal:
FDR Cartoon Archive
FDR Fireside Chats
Harlem: 1900-1940
New Deal Network
The Great Depression- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Virginia Schools in the Great Depression

WWII and the Early Cold War:
Churchill Speech Interactive
Dr. Seuss Went to War
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
The Spy's Dilemma

Decades of Change:
Civil Rights Document Project
Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb
Little Rock Central High Memory Project
NYT: A Different War (Vietnam)
Revisiting Watergate

Post Cold War:


September 11:
PBS America Responds
September 11, 2001, Documentary Project
The September 11 Digital Archive